OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs
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The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs summarise conclusions reached for policy makers.
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- ISSN: 20771681 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20771681
Migration, Aid and Trade
Policy Coherence for Development
In November 2005, Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP EU Joint
Parliamentary Assembly, reported that “there are more nurses from Malawi in
Manchester than in Malawi and more doctors from Ethiopia in Chicago than
Ethiopia.”1 These Africans had been lured North by work permits targeted at
health-care workers, in short supply in the United Kingdom and the United
States. On the face of it, this is reasonable policy making: the African health care
workers in Manchester and Chicago clearly prefer their new situation to the one
they left, and the general public in Manchester and Chicago benefit from the
increase in the availability of health-care services. At the same time, however,...
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